Actually ghost can do much more than this,
it compresses the resulting image file, and it can
resize partitions on the fly (the types that it knows,
of course) when you open the image files later.
The compression you can get with dd as well,
augment it with gzip:
dd if=/dev/foo | gzip - > fooimg.gz
Gaal Yahas wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:24:50AM +0200, Mike ALmogy wrote:
> > if you want to do a backup of your entire HD why not using the MSDOS
> > program GHOST ?
>
> I think Ghost is the paradigm of superfluous applications. Boot
> from any decent single-floppy system and
>
> dd if=/where/ever of=/hmm
>
> > I think that it supports linux File Systems. and since it copy every bit on
> > your HD then it will not be a problem to recover the info.
>
> The above does that too, plus any filesystem to come.
>
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